[johnb838]

>> What would a 747 loaded with fuel do to that large black rock in Mecca?

Let 'em keep the rock. What needs to happen is a brigade of IDF and a company of armored bulldozers needs to drive up the temple mount one morning and push over that damned dome of the rock and start rebuilding the temple. Then let the chips fall where they may.

[cake_crumb]

"Let 'em keep the rock."

I say we hold the Rock hostage. We go in, we TAKE the thing...and we stick it inside the case of a specially fitted, active nuke. We build a temple in some more or less neutral spot that the Muslims can identify with....the middle of the Shahara. We build a HUGE fortress, with Gulag-like security, around the temple. That way, they can visit it whever they wish, IF they behave themselves.

If they DON'T behave themselves....if there is one more act of terrorism committed by any Muslim anywhere...NO MORE PRAYING TO ROCKS AT BEDTIME, BECAUSE THE ROCK IS NOT EVEN MOLECULES ANYMORE.

Nah, probably won't work. Nice thought though...for a few glorious minutes....